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The idea behind The Experiment, held at Laban Theatre on 23 April, was to ask questions and provoke the audience with work they may love or may hate without them knowing the gender of the choreographer. The Experiment was never billed as a show and it was not a showcase or a platform for new and emerging choreographers: it was a research evening with performances involved in order to gain the responses we required.

Everyone attending was given questionnaires to fill out in response to the pieces they were watching and the feedback from these has been fascinating. We have been accused of not choosing the 'best work' for the evening but that was not what the event was about. The evening has provoked strong reactions from various areas of the dance industry and has already generated a huge discussion which is exactly what Jane and I wanted to achieve. We want to make people talk about this issue and come together to further these conversations. We feel it is very important to recognise this as not just being a concern in the contemporary dance genre but also something that is happening in across the board in all genres, hence the mix of work we choose for The Experiment.

Jane and I do not have the answers to the questions and we don't believe for one second that one event is going to give the answers we are looking for but it is the basis we have decided to work from. This is just the beginning; not everyone will like the way do certain events/performances/research but we welcome everyone's opinions and thoughts and feelings on this varied subject as our plan is to bring everyone together - both male and female - and find a way to move forward and bring about a change.

In the coming months we will be curating an evening of female performances, We Are The Women, and will also be holding a forum at Laban to discuss the research results and hopefully address all the questions and points that have been raised since The Experiment. As we said prior to The Experiment, we can't do this without you being involved, so we ask you to send to us specific questions that you would like to see addressed at the forum and any topics that you would like to see covered. You can email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Extract of a new Dancehall Theatre piece on the theme of feminism, women’s rights and gender inequalities. Three female characters address conflicting topics through the epic dance language of Jamaican Dancehall and a sprinkle of spoken words!

The piece looks at the hidden thoughts of exploration that a newly formed couple undergo and how it evolves from something shy and wary to an intimate and daring discovery of their own forms and lines.

As each of them steps in to their minds they develop an alienated sense of their own bodies, as well as each others, thus beginning their desire to observe and learn more about the stranger next to them.

Travis Knight is currently dancing with Wayne McGregor/Random Dance. He recently showed work at Resolution 2013.

Even the Devil has Demons brings you face to face with the creatures that seep out of the imagination, onto the page and through the screen into our daily lives. “Don’t forget him. If you confront him, then he’s out of a job” Keith Richards (2002).